Lithocharis.'] staphylinid^e. 319 



America ; the single European species, wliich is very common, lias been 

 distributed by commerce, so tliat it is nearly cosmopolitan. 



The larva of Lithocharis ochracea is described by Mulsant ami Rey, Brevipennes, 

 Pederieiis, p. 177 : it is slightly couvex, sparingly clothed with seta), elongate, with 

 the sides slightly enlarged and rounded behind, of a shining livid red colour, with 

 the ahdomen paler; head large, snbqnadr.itc, almost longer than bi-oad, a' little 

 broader than thorax ; antennae short ; thorax oblouij, a little narrowed in front 

 smooth on disc, and marked on each side with two shallow oblique impressions, about 

 as long as the meso- and meta-thorax together ; abdomen with the first seven seg- 

 ments short nearly equal, the eighth narrower, and the ninth narrow bearing two 

 cerci and an anal appendage ; legs short. 



This larva, according to Mulsant and Rey, has the head somewhat resembling that 

 of the larva? of the Xautholinina;, but it is less linear and has the abdomen shorter 

 and more rounded at the sides : it is found in hotbeds and dung-heaps. 



Zi. ochracea, Grav. (brimmce2^s, Fairm.). Ferruginous or brownish- 

 yellow witli the head black ; head somewhat triangular, about as broad 

 as thorax, very finely and thickly punctured ; antennae testaceous or 

 reddish, rather robust, moderately long, with penultimate joints sub- 

 transverse ; thorax subquadrate, a little longer than broad, narrower 

 than elytra, parallel-sided, very finely and thickly punctured, with a fine 

 smooth longitudinal central line ; elytra about a third longer than thorax, 

 very finely, thickly, and somewhat asperately punctured; hind body 

 narrowed towards apex, finely shagreened ; legs testaceous. L. 3J— 

 4 mm. 



Male characters very peculiar, the seventh ventral segment being 

 deeply emarginate and having the sides of the emargination produced a't 

 apex in the form of two very long lobes, sixth segment feebly and 

 broadly emarginate with a tuft of dark cilia on each side of the 

 emargination. 



In haystack refuse, dung-heaps, hotbeds, &c. ; common and generally distributed 

 throughout England ; less common further north ; Scotland, not common, but widely 

 distributed, Tweed, Forth, Dee, and Moray districts ; Ireland, Dublin and Armagh 

 and probably generally distributed. ' 



SUNIVS, Stephens. 



This genus is distinguished from all the other Psederin^ with five- 

 joiuted tarsi, except Paderus, by having the penultimate joint of the 

 tarsi bilobed ; from Pmierus it diff'ers in the much larger size of the 

 species, and the fact that the penultimate joint of the tarsi is furnished 

 with membrane beneath ; the genus comprises more than 150 species 

 which are very widely distributed over nearly the whole surface of the 

 globe ; there are only about sixteen European species, of which four are 

 British. 



I. Elytra about as long as thorax or very little longer. 

 i. Elytra dull, rather broadly testaceous at apex, less 



_ coarsely punctured ; hind body very long . . . . S. FiLiFOEMis, Latr 

 11. Elytra shining, very narrowly testaceous at apex. 



